arts
Sterling to hit airwaves
By Brett Bigham
Of The Print
“I want to be an actor. I
want to know for myself that I
can act professionally and have
others see this,” Pat Sterling, a
Clackamas Community Col
lege theater major, said.
“I don’t want to be like
Farrah Fawcett or Lee Majors, I
want to act.”
Sterling may well be on his
way. He will be doing some
video programs for Channel 7
Liberty Cable in the next
month. He will be playing
a starship captain in a future-
orientated comedy and a hard
rocker who is losing his mind in
another.
“There is no way I can say
I am even close to being the
successful actor I want to be,”
Sterling said.
Currently he is playing
Raymond Boynton in the Col
lege’s production of Agatha
Christie’s “Appointment With
Death.”
“It’s nice working in this
production,” he said. “There is
such a variety of participants.
Not like in high school where
it’s a closed circle.”
Sterling worked in his first
professional production this
summer with the Driftwood
Players of Seattle, playing
Lysander in Shakespeare’s “A
Midsummers Night Dream.”
“That was an experience,
working with a group of profes
sionals,” he said.
Sterling also took private
acting lessons from Clayton
Corzatte this summer. “He is
probably one of the best actor
directors in the Northwest. It
was quite an honor to work
under him,” he said.
• “It’s funnny. In acting you
have to have talent. That is the
most important thing. But
another key factor in being an
accomplished actor is
contacts,” Sterling said. “If you
want to be a well known actor,
no matter what, you have to
have contacts. Corzatte is a
contact.”
With both his video and
stagework Sterling feels his live
performances are the most im
portant. “Theater is so much
more professional. When you
are acting on stage you can’t
call a “cut” or re-take a scene,”
he said.
Sterling began his career
at 12 when his parents enrolled
him in the Northwest Arts and
Dance Academy to study
mime. “As time went on I
became more involved in
theater.’’Tie said.
Sterling then signed with
an agent, which he believed to
be his big break. “Hey! I’ve got
an agent now . . . Stardom!” he
said, “But I seldom worked for
money. All along though I was
gaining experience. Experience
is the key factor.”
Aside from his latest play
Sterling has been in 10 other
productions. He has played
Curly in “Of Mice and Men,”
Biff Lohman in “Death of a
Salesman” and Tony Curby in
“You Can’t Take It With You.”
During high school he also won
first place out of 48 other com
petitors at the Oregon State
Thespian Conference in the
mime division and first place in
one-act performances in the
Willamette Valley League with
“You Can’t Take It With You.”
“One thing about me, is
that I’ve seen so many different
people. An actor picks up other
people’s actions and emotions
for use in the way he acts.
Especially in a character role,”
he said.
Sterling looks up to
Richard Burton and Jack
Nicholson. He also admires
Katherine Hepburn.
“I hope to get involved
with more varieties of lessons.
Music and dance would be
good,” he said, “I’d like to go
to a fine arts school.”
“Acting has become an
obsession with me. I can’t even
picture myself doing anything
else. I’ll always be an actor.”
Acting highlights ‘Death Watch’
By Brett Bigham
Of The Print
You are going to die. You
want to do it with dignity and
privacy but unfortunately
someone else has a different
idea. That idea is Death Watch.
It is a time in the near future
and death by illness is
something of the past. That is,
for most people, but you have
contracted a deadly disease.
That is what happens to
Romy Schneider in Bertrand
Tavernier’s new film, “Death
Watch.” Schneider is given on
ly weeks to live, and a televi
sion contract with NTV to
spend her dying days in front of
a camera. This is not what she
wants but NTV begins to
hound her by using her pictures
on billboards and telling the
public to watch the newest
thing on television. Death
Watch.
That is what happens to
Romy Schneider in Bertrand
Tavernier’s new film, “Death
Watch.” Schneider is given on
ly weeks to live, and a televi
sion contract with NTV to
spend her dying days in front of
a camera. This is not what she
wants but NTV begins to
hound her by using her pictures
on billboards and telling the
public to watch the newest
thing on television. Death
Watch.
As pressure and press
build Schneider decides to sign
the contract to insure her hus
band’s well being and skips out
of the contract after receiving
the money.
Enter Harvey Keitel. Keitel
plays an NTV agent who finds
Schneider and films her last
weeks with a secret camera im
planted in his eye.
“Death Watch” is a power
fully acted science fiction film
shot on location in Scotland. It
is a non-special effects related
film with the exception of the
camera implant. It centers
more on the humanistic
qualities of the actors involved.
Romy Schneider’s perfor
mance of the dying woman is
touchingly done and is even
more accented because of her
own recent death. It is easy to
believe that she herself is
preparing for her own death.
Harvey Keitel’s perfor
mance is equally as strong but
not as emotionally based. It’s
hard to dislike him even though
he is betraying the dying
woman during the entire time
he is comforting and helping
her. His acting hits a high point
in the final 40 minutes of the
movie as opposed to
see past his ratings to realize
how cruel he is actually being.
Pierre William Glenn’s
cinematography is unfortunate
ly to good to waste, which is
unfortunate also for the movie.
The outdoor scenery shots
have a tendency to be dragged
on. An audience can only
stand so many shots of the
autumn countryside.
“Death Watch” is a deep
and moving movie and the ac
ting is well worth the price, but
it does have a tendency to
drag. It is now playing at the
5th Avenue Cinema.
Staff Photo by Brett Bigham
Museum holds
holiday show
figure in American art from the
Just in time for the
holidays, the Portland Art early 19th century to the pre
Museum will host a national ex sent. The exhibition, drawn
hibition of American art, “Of from the Corcoran’s outstan
ding collection of American art,
Time and Place: American
Figurative Art from the Cor documents changes in both ar
tistic styles and social concerns
coran Gallery,” Wednesday,
November 24 through Sunday, which occurred during this 160
January 2, in the Hirsch year period.
galleries at the Museum, 1219
SW Park.
“The subjects of the works
The 75 works in the ex range from rural America and
hibition capture people in
the call of the frontier to
everyday settings, each in a
America the melting pot, and
particular “time and place” in
the rise of the urban center,”
American life. The wide-
said Donald Jenkins, director
ranging selection includes pain
of the Portland Art Museum.
tings, sculptures, drawings,
“It is a fascinating exhibition,
prints and photographs by. and an ideal way for families to
American artists, highlighting spend a thoroughly enjoyable
the development of the human
afternoon.”
College offers coffee, classes, free film
A chance to talk to
students from Belgium,
Taiwan, Venezuela and other
foreign locales will be offered
Nov. 9 at Clackamas Com
munity College.
An “International Coffee
Hour” is being sponsored by
the College’s International Club
from noon to 1 p.m. in the
Small Dining Room. The infor
mal session will provide com
munity members with a chance
to meet students from nearly
20 countries, including Iran
and the People’s Republic of
Schneiders who is polished and China. Another “coffee hour”
unmistakingly real her entire has been scheduled for Dec.
performance.
14.
Harry Dean Stanton does
For more information,
a good job as the NTV Death contact the Public Information
Watch producer who cannot Office, ext. 440.
Wednesday, November 3, 1982
Pat Sterling
The Environmental Learn
ing Center is offering a
workshop to learn the “Della
Robbia” technique of color.
The class will only be using
natural materials.
The class will be Nov. 4
and 11, 7-10 p.m. Adgie
CASH
Hulse will be instructing the
class and cost will be $6.
“Lawrence of Arabia,”
starring Peter O’Toole will be
shown Thurs. in the Clackamas
Community College Fireside
Lounge. Admission is free and
the film will start at 1 p.m.
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